"Presents, I often say, endear absents."

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"Neat, not gaudy."

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"Books which are no books."

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"The red-letter days now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days."

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"For thy sake, tobacco, I Would do anything but die."

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"It is good to love the unknown."

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"The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling--a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy; yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy."

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"He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society."

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"Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony; but organically I am incapable of a tune."

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"Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down . . . . . . . . . To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood? . . . . . . . . . Sabbathless Satan!"

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"There 's a good time coming, boys! A good time coming."

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"Cleon hath a million acres,--ne'er a one have I; Cleon dwelleth in a palace,--in a cottage I."

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"But the sunshine aye shall light the sky, As round and round we run; And the truth shall ever come uppermost, And justice shall be done."

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"Aid the dawning, tongue and pen; Aid it, hopes of honest men!"

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"Some love to roam o'er the dark sea's foam, Where the shrill winds whistle free."

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"Old Tubal Cain was a man of might In the days when earth was young."

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"The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it."

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"Every tub must stand upon its bottom."

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"When I see a merchant over-polite to his customers, begging them to taste a little brandy and throwing half his goods on the counter,--thinks I, that man has an axe to grind."

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"Solid men of Boston, banish long potations! Solid men of Boston, make no long orations!"

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"O give me the sweet shady side of Pall Mall!"

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"Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne a sceptred hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality."

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"When change itself can give no more, 'T is easy to be true."

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"Behold! in Liberty's unclouded blaze We lift our heads, a race of other days."

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"Lo where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age."

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"Yes, social friend, I love thee well, In learned doctors' spite; Thy clouds all other clouds dispel, And lap me in delight."

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"Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends, An incarnation of fat dividends."

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"A charge to keep I have, A God to glorify; A never dying soul to save, And fit it for the sky."

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"Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory."

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"Go, forget me! why should sorrow O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me, and to-morrow Brightly smile and sweetly sing! Smile,--though I shall not be near thee; Sing,--though I shall never hear thee!"

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"Yet there was round thee such a dawn Of light, ne'er seen before, As fancy never could have drawn, And never can restore."

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"But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him."

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"If I had thought thou couldst have died, I might not weep for thee; But I forgot, when by thy side, That thou couldst mortal be."

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"Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried."

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"By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals."

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"O, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars."

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"Infinite riches in a little room."

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"Love me little, love me long."

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"When all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven."

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"Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is, more knave than fool."

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"Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burnèd is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learnèd man."

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"Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?"

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"I 'm armed with more than complete steel,-- The justice of my quarrel."

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"Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss! Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies!"

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"Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness."

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"And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies."

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"Come live with me, and be my love; And we will all the pleasures prove That hills and valleys, dales and fields, Woods or steepy mountain yields."

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"We are spirits clad in veils; Man by man was never seen; All our deep communing fails To remove the shadowy screen."

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"Thought is deeper than all speech, Feeling deeper than all thought; Souls to souls can never teach What unto themselves was taught."

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"For as lack of adornment is said to become some women, so this subtle oration, though without embellishment, gives delight."

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